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Reception: May 3, 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May 3 - May 17, 2025
SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Search Term shines light on the interface. Through installation, sculpture, video and collage, Maddie Butler brings attention to the technologies of mediation that govern daily life. The exhibition tests the porosity of barriers like the screen and the window, interfering with their structure in order to clarify their function.
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Reception: May 3, 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May 5 - May 10, 2025 by Appointment
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Set You Free explores the embodiment of Anarkata, a spiritual and political force rooted in Black anarchist traditions, as a catalyst for liberation. Channeling ancestral rage, resistance, and love, the work combines video, sculpture, and photographic works to dismantle oppressive structures, advocating for violence as a transformative act of futurity.
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April 28 & 30, May 1 & 2; 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
In this exhibition, I explore the profound intersection of nostalgia, childhood, mourning, and loss. Through this journey, I invite viewers to reflect on their own lived experiences in escaping consuming nostalgia in order to newly contextualize their relationships with themselves and loved ones.
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May 3, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
Get ready to party with Project [BLANK] at the second annual ART ATTACK! — an epic night of art, music, food, and drinks, all in support of San Diego’s most innovative arts organization. This unforgettable evening features a Silent Auction showcasing works by some of the most exciting artists from our community and beyond.
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Reception: May 3, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
April 28 - May 10, 2025
SDSU University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Join the artist at the opening reception of her MFA thesis exhibition, showing new works until 5/10.
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May 7, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego, Livestream TBD
Shirley Tse deconstructs our world of synthetic objects that carry paradoxical meanings and constructs models in which differences might come together. Various strategies of visualising heterogeneity are used: conflating different scales, fusing the organic with the industrial, crossing between the literal and the metaphorical, merging different narratives, and collapsing the subject and object relationship.
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Reception: May 9, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
Ombligo a la Tierra is a photographic series that explores the body as a sacred site, where the womb holds memory, spirit, and the power of creation. Rooted in the teachings of Indigenous elder women from my community of North and Central American ancestry, this work moves through lived experiences with the womb—its pain, resilience, and the site where healthcare becomes a sacred ritual.
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May 9 - May 10, 2025
Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Ph.D. Student Jae Hwan Lim presents his paper "The Temporality of Sewol Mothers" at the University of Michigan's 12th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST).
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May 10, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Rhizome Wold, New York, NY
Media Art 21 comes to Rhizome World for a new symposium on the platform’s three key themes: The Posthuman, Ecologies, and the Commons. In Partnership with Onassis ONX and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, this convening features artists and scholars who offer critical reflections on contempor-ary art practice and shifting paradigms in media art in particular.
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Reception: May 10, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 10 - July 19, 2025
Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Tellings explores the body as a shifting, evolving terrain—an amalgamation of matter and consciousness. Using ceramic, steel, and copper foil, Stringer constructs abstract, theatrical vignettes that imagine bodily transformations at the fantastical intersection of science fiction and biopolitics.
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Duke University Press
Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. Informatics of Domination builds on Donna J. Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought, inviting fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives.
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Canadian Film Institute
Mike Hoolboom: Work (2025) is the first monograph on the expansive practice of the Canadian filmmaker which brings together a vast array of essays and texts from academics, artists, and friends. Christine Negus’ contribution considers the use of the cross fade and the glitch in Hoolboom’s 2019 video (S)he Said That as filmic techniques employed to reveal the instability of the binary’s ordering system, within both the digital context and the greater social realm.
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The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) announced five artists in residence for 2025–2026. The Artist in Residence program at the AMOCA Ceramics Studio supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists, allowing them time, space, and resources to develop their creative work. The program is one of the few long-term fellowship opportunities for ceramic artists on the West Coast.
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April 17 - September 28, 2025
Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
The exhibition focuses on the staging of memories and examines remembrance in its various forms – private and public. Contemporary artists open up diverse perspectives on the past and present through their own reflections on the subject.
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April 10 - May 30, 2025
UpThere, 353 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
A series of exhibitions throughout the spring will include undergraduate students David Lovell, Angelo Aguila, Gissela Castillo, Youngmi Bombach, Malika Charles, Adi Venkatesh, Amanda Salatino, Holda Ashima, Jaime Leynes, Jeana Yoon, Kyra Brantley, Lauren Reed, Maximiliano Hernandez, and Noah Harvey.
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Chula Vista Today
The newly installed sculpture Rigors of Flight now graces the heart of Sweetwater Park as a key feature of the Port of San Diego’s Tidelands Art Collection. Crafted from warm-toned aluminum and shaped like a bird’s wishbone the piece has become a visual and symbolic centerpiece of Chula Vista’s emerging bayfront, representing themes of flight, resilience, and collective aspiration.
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March 1 - June 15, 2025
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.
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October 4, 2024 - Ongoing
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.
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March 29 - May 3, 2025
Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
The artist's recent residency in the desert vistas of Pioneertown, CA turned into an extended chapter in her exploration of the color blue. The Pioneertown desert and the Rocky Mountains come together to create a similar emotional environment. Piersol pulls from both, visually and psychologically, to create new landscapes.
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April 12 – May 4, 2025
Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
Through new investigations in painting and installation, Angie Jennings continues to explore sentiments of existence upon astral planes. Historically, concepts and theories of astral planes have been linked to both mysticism and metaphysics, with a locus of the intangible.
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March 6 - May 8, 2025
The FRONT Arte & Cultura, San Ysidro, CA
Casa Familiar’s 18th Annual Dia de la Mujer Exhibition at The Front. Visions of a future considers cultural aesthetics from Afrofuturism, Latinfuturism, and Chicanofuturism to question the relationship between past, present and future in the Americas, exploring themes of migration, colonialism, racism, and cultural identity while actively challenging dominant narratives.
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February 8 - May 11, 2025
Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
Danielle Dean’s work spans video, painting, installation, social practice and performance. Drawing on archival records, film and advertising, Dean’s practice interrogates how individuals are shaped by commercial narratives and explores historical and contemporary representations of labour, racialised identity and popular culture.
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